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Loading your audio article. "This Gorgeous Game". By Donna Freitas. Advertisement. Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), $ ( pages) Ages 12 and up. Olivia is thrilled when. Seventeen-year-old Olivia Peters, who dreams of becoming a writer, is thrilled to be selected to take a college fiction seminar taught by her idol, Father Mark, but when the priest's enthusiasm for her writing develops into something more, Olivia shifts from wonder to confusion to despair. THIS GORGEOUS GAME is as far from a light read as you can get. I still get goosebumps every time I think about or try to talk about this book, which hopefully shows the power that Olivia's story had over me, the effect of Donna Freitas' words.
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